Last night saw the premiere of the multi-Emmy Award winning reality show, "The Amazing Race". And just like on "American Idol", the best episodes are the early ones when the least gifted among the contestants embarrass themselves on national television. .
(ron and tony).
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(nick
and vicki)
.The first team to be eliminated were Tony and Ron, only minutes after Tony bragged that his education, (an undergraduate degree from Stanford and an M.B.A. from The University of Arizona), would give he and Ron an advantage over the other contestants. Evidently, they didn't teach basic 5th-grade level map-reading at Stanford, because Tony and Ron spent hours driving around the highways of England, lost, all the while the highly educated Tony sat in the back seat with an open road map on his lap stating that he had no idea where they were. Why, oh why, do people enter a competition in which navigation is a crucial skill with absolutely no ability to navigate? That's the "amazing" part of The Amazing Race!
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But Ron and Tony weren't the dumbest contestants, by a long shot. That award goes to Nick and Vicki, a bartender and hairstylist from Nevada. When they arrived at England's Stonehenge, Vicki stated that she'd never heard of Stonehenge. What? Then, just like Ron and Tony, Nick and Vicki quickly lost their way driving down a highway, spending hours driving in circles. But the best moment came when they finally arrived at the finish line and the Host, Phil K., asked them if they knew where they were, and Vicki said they were in the country of London. Wow.
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But all those moments paled in comparison to one of the funniest scenes we've ever seen on television. At one point, the contestants had to put a small watermelon in a medieval catapult and let the fruit fly toward a target. Claire, a Home Shopping Network host, let a melon fly only to have it come right back and nail her in the face. It had to hurt, but it was, oh, so funny. Claire ran toward the finish line moaning, "I can't feel my face, I can't feel my face!" We're still laughing about it today just thinking about it.
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But Ron and Tony weren't the dumbest contestants, by a long shot. That award goes to Nick and Vicki, a bartender and hairstylist from Nevada. When they arrived at England's Stonehenge, Vicki stated that she'd never heard of Stonehenge. What? Then, just like Ron and Tony, Nick and Vicki quickly lost their way driving down a highway, spending hours driving in circles. But the best moment came when they finally arrived at the finish line and the Host, Phil K., asked them if they knew where they were, and Vicki said they were in the country of London. Wow.
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.But all those moments paled in comparison to one of the funniest scenes we've ever seen on television. At one point, the contestants had to put a small watermelon in a medieval catapult and let the fruit fly toward a target. Claire, a Home Shopping Network host, let a melon fly only to have it come right back and nail her in the face. It had to hurt, but it was, oh, so funny. Claire ran toward the finish line moaning, "I can't feel my face, I can't feel my face!" We're still laughing about it today just thinking about it.
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